"SCRAP THE NAVY " POLICY.
Mr. Walter Long, First Lord of the Admiralty, at the Navy League dinner: " We have just come through the greatest war the world has ever seen. Without the British Navy the victory could not have been won. We are told we ought to change our policy and abandon what we have hitherto thought necessary. It is essential^ that a policy of economy should be pursued. I cannot say what I should like to say about the future policy of the Admiralty, because I must make any such declaration in Parliament, and I hope to have a very early opportunity. But I can advise the Navy League to devote itself with all its energy to maintaining the spirit and traditions of the Navy, and, above all, to spread throughout the whole community the lessons of history of what the Navy has done for the Empire and the world during the last three hundred years. lam told by some that the Navy can be scrapped. But there is an old saying that it is better to be on with your new love before you are off with the old. And in our case the old love has been a true love. Do not let us in a moment of enthusiasm or excitement forsake the substance for the shadow." (Cheers.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 6
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